The early release of Snow Leopard (10.6) was definitely a surprise. Apple has historically released their products “on time”. As far as I can remember, the only time they missed their said target date was when Leopard (10.5) was delayed because they had to steal the Leopard engineers to help out with the iPhone.
So, with Snow Leopard’s early release, they definitely have us forgive their Leopard delay. :)
I’m so getting the Snow Leopard. What are the key features you’re most excited about?
For me, they are:
- Performance boost
- iChat high-resolution video
- Quicktime
Aug 25, 2009And do not forget the 32/64 EFI jazz and the 4 and 6 key reboot mode to enable the 64 bit mode (default reboot is 32 bit) There is a link to several articles on this subject.
Aug 25, 2009Plato, quoting Gizmodo: “As a whole, machines with lots of RAM (over 4GB) are more efficient with a 64-bit kernel, but even though consumer Macs will have a 32-bit kernel, all Intel-based Macs will run 64-bit programs automatically, which gives you the most obvious benefits. So really the only benefit to having a 64-bit kernel is if you’ve got 32GB of memory, a frankly monstrous amount of RAM, and hell, the hardware won’t even allow that much. All 64-bit applications will run on the Macs with either Intel Xeon or Intel Core 2 Duo processors, so this 32-bit brouhaha is pretty much a misunderstanding.”
It’s all good, guys. :)
Aug 25, 2009Tayler – That is why all my latest Macintoshes are 4 GB or over in RAM size to take full advantage of Snow Leopard, the first full 64 bit OS-X version, (over 90% of system routines recompiled in 64 bit to date). ;^P
Aug 25, 2009Actually I don’t know why Gizmodo wrote 4GB. They’re confusing their readers further. First they say 4GB, then they say 32GB. “So really the only benefit to having a 64-bit kernel is if you’ve got 32GB of memory, a frankly monstrous amount of RAM, and hell, the hardware won’t even allow that much.”
I don’t know why they couldn’t get it straight if they quoted an Apple statement which reads: “The primary benefit of a 64-bit kernel is to improve the efficiency of accessing over 32GB of RAM.”
So it’s over 32GB, not 4GB.
Anyway, folks, order your copy yet? It’s gonna be snowing flurries soon! :’)
Aug 25, 2009Hey…..
A new Mac user here since July 12th! I’m going to order the copy for only 10 bucks.
I’m still in love with my MacBook Pro. I still can’t get over with it and its features. More new things to discover!
Misha
Aug 25, 2009got mine ordered already!!
Aug 25, 2009Got mine ordered too.
Aug 26, 2009Ordered mine a month ago for $9.95 as I ordered a loaded Mac mini on June 8. Am still waiting for a pending order of a tablet(or Steve Jobs’ Waterloo according to a few sourpuss writers) on September 8.
Aug 26, 2009@plato Expectation of the tablet is too high – that’s the downside of their secretive ways.
Scenario #1: Make a statement that they’re not releasing it on September 9 will only open a can of worms. If there isn’t an announcement, then they’re releasing it.
Sneario #2: Don’t make announcements in the first place, the stock price slips if the anticipated product isn’t released.
Guess either way, Apple is fucked unless they do release the expected product. :)
Aug 26, 2009Tayler* What is wrong with playing the crystal ball for fun?
Apple had to clean Snow Leopard a bit to avoid fainting ladies after seeing how it had a snack of snow bunnies.
We will see what happens on September 8 and it may be only a Beatle rehash, who knows?
Aug 26, 2009@plato Here’s some more fun: Rumors now has it that Apple is going to introduce a new full line-up of iPods on September 9.
Is the tablet going to be considered part of the iPod family?
Aug 26, 2009Tayler! We will see and get shocked if Steve Jobs pulls an iPod Bunny out of his hat. Rumors also say six and ten inch wide iPod Touches with webcams and cameras, oh well!
Aug 26, 2009Wouldn’t those be tablets? Any name or form the tablets come in, they better have MiFi!
Aug 27, 2009Dont forget Mail now support MS Exchange account. Woot!
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9:49 am
My list is the exactly same as yours. I’m not sure if the iChat video will be in higher resolution, though, the Snow Leopard page says it’s bumped for iChat Theater. It doesn’t say resolution is changed for video, just that it requires less bandwidth as compared to Leopard. I’ll definitely check this out when I get my copy on Friday.
Actually I’ll add one more thing to the list. Screen recording and iPhone-like simple trimming via Quicktime X. Previously, you had to pay $29.99 for Quicktime Pro to do camera recording; now it’s included with Quicktime X. Perfect for my vlogging.
A secondary list would be: faster Time Machine backups, faster wake up and shut down, automatic printer driver downloads, and finally OpenCL for faster video performance.